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Building Desire
On the Barcelona Pavilion
In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion....Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-32524-0
Published August 2nd 2005 by Routledge.
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The Green City
Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-37231-2
Published March 24th 2005 by Routledge.
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Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture gives the first ever all-inclusive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Exceptional in its approach, it explores architecture as a current practice in...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-32059-7
Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Emergence of Modern Architecture
A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-26025-1
Published March 4th 2004 by Routledge.
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Shaping the City
Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design
Taking on important themes and debates in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-26189-0
Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.
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Constructing Place
Mind and the Matter of Place-Making
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-31466-4
Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.
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Modernism and the Spirit of the City
Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25841-8
Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.
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Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-27493-7
Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.
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Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-12182-8
Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.
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Actions of Architecture
Architects and Creative Users
Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-29043-2
Published May 29th 2003 by Routledge.
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Public and Private Spaces of the City
The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25629-2
Published March 13th 2003 by Routledge.
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Architecture and Nature
Creating the American Landscape
Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!
The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate....
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-28359-5
Published February 13th 2003 by Routledge.
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This is Not Architecture
Media Constructions
This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23180-0
Published April 25th 2002 by Routledge.
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The Hieroglyphics of Space
Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis
'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-19892-9
Published November 22nd 2001 by Routledge.
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The Urban Lifeworld
Formation Perception Representation
Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23177-0
Published November 15th 2001 by Routledge.
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The Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-14346-2
Published October 25th 2001 by Routledge.
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Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-24814-3
Published October 25th 2001 by Routledge.
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What is Architecture?
Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25627-8
Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.
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Architecture
The Subject is Matter
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23546-4
Published August 16th 2001 by Routledge.
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Architecturally Speaking
Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23544-0
Published September 21st 2000 by Routledge.
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German Architecture for a Mass Audience
This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23654-6
Published September 14th 2000 by Routledge.
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Intersections
Architectural Histories and Critical Theories
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23179-4
Published August 17th 2000 by Routledge.
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Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23615-7
Published July 20th 2000 by Routledge.
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Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-17253-0
Published September 23rd 1999 by Routledge.
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Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-17368-1
Published April 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Rethinking Architecture
A Reader in Cultural Theory
Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.Issues around the built...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-12826-1
Published March 6th 1997 by Routledge.
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